Children's metalinguistic knowledge of syntactic constituents
Effects of age and schooling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9793293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernanda Ferreira (0000-0002-9349-9300, corresponding author), Frederick J Morrison (0000-0001-9071-3482) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 663-678 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.30.5.663 |
| OpenAlex | W2082035076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 13 |
This study used the school cutoff methodology to examine the development of chiIdren's metalinguistic knowledge of the syntactic subject of a sentence. Two groups of children matched in age and background variables but differing in amount of schooling were tested at ages 5, 6, and 7. The children's task was to listen to a sentence and repeat either the subject or the subject and verb. The subject was a pronoun, a proper name, a 2-word sequence, or a 3-word sequence. Children at the age of 5 had difficulty accurately repeating the pronominal and longest subjects. Children's ability to isolate the pronoun improved as they became older, not as they became more schooled; in contrast, children's ability to handle the longest subjects improved as the children acquired more schooling
Abstract reasoning · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Metalinguistic awareness · Metalinguistics · Syntax · Teaching method · Vocabulary development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2014 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |